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The Institute for Sustainable Development (INE) participates in the EU-project METPEX that aims to develope a tool to measure passenger satisfaction. Passenger satisfaction may depend on accessibility issues. Therefore, one of the work packages (WP6), leaded by INE, has as a goal to find the association of socio-economic factors and land use with accessibility. The […]
In the analysis of land use factors associated with different accessibility patterns of the EU-Project METPEX, Switzerland is analysed as case study. One parameter analysed is the average distance to different services in three different land use types: centres of agglomerations, surroundings of agglomerations and rural areas. The figure below confirms the hypothesis that rural […]
The midterm METPEX Meeting took place from 31st March to 2nd April 2014 in Valencia. The 15 project partners discussed about the progress of the running work packages (WP) and INE, as WP6-leader, coordinated the discussions regarding the factors associated with accessibility that are relevant for the quality of passenger experience.The first task of the […]
The Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS) classifies the municipalities in nine types: centres, suburban, high-income, peri-urban, touristic, industrial, rural, agrarian mix and agrarian municipalities according to employment, population density, income, tourism, population structure and centrality criteria. In the framework of the METPEX project the connection between such land use types and mobility patterns are analyzed. […]
The connections between land use aspects, socio-economics, accessibility and mobility patterns are studied in the EU FP7 project METPEX, where INE, ZHAW is also a partner. INE is leading the work package with focus on land use types and accessibility issues. Spatial aspects such as living in urban or rural environments, the distance to work […]